Hong Kong Art Deco Architecture: Unveiling the Hidden Heritage
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The Art Deco movement since the 1920s is often neglected at the peripheries of architectural history of Asia and Hong Kong. This book is the first study relating Art Deco architecture in the city with local socioeconomic and political contexts, adopts the theoretical lens to examine how they framed practices of everyday life, and narrates how Art Deco became part of the modern Hong Kong ethos via such architectural typologies as public and institutional sites, residential properties, commercial, industrial, and utility buildings.
As surviving Art Deco buildings are hidden treasures and portals to forgotten marvels and little-known history of interwar Hong Kong, Prudence Lau and Vanessa Yeung show us how Art Deco heritage bears witness to the city’s societal progress in various aspects, early efforts at modernization before the postwar era, and its aesthetic connections with the international stage.
Art Deco in Hong Kong:
A Question of Architectural Styles Puay-peng Ho
Foreword Bruce Peter
Foreword Jennifer Wong
Foreword Alec Inglis
Preface
An Introduction to Art Deco
Chapter 1
Public and Institutional Sites
Chapter 2
Residential Properties
Chapter 3
Commercial, Industrial, and Utility Buildings
Chapter 4
Translocality of Hong Kong Art Deco: Tracing and Documenting Marginalised Histories in Archives and Collections
Chapter 5
New Horizons in Hong Kong Art Deco Heritage
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
The authors have successfully defined Hong Kong Art Deco through the analysis of many examples of the style. This book is a definitive guide to Hong Kong Art Deco architecture in the fullest scope and meaning of the style, as well as an eye-opening experience of the varied and enchanting range of Art Deco motifs in Hong Kong.
——Puay-peng Ho
UNESCO Chair on Architectural Heritage Conservation and Management in Asia
Professor, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore
In documenting and contextualising Hong Kong’s Art Deco history and heritage, this book makes most valuable contributions and will hopefully stimulate an increasing affection for the buildings and places that remain to be enjoyed.
——Bruce Peter
Professor of Design History, School of Design, The Glasgow School of Art
This book encourages readers to see Hong Kong’s Art Deco legacy not just as an architectural style, but as a reflection of the bold individuals, like my grandfather, who built bridges between worlds.
——Jennifer Wong
Family Historian, granddaughter of architect Liu Jipiao
Architects developed radical concepts which were translated into elegant and desirable buildings by specialist teams and talented individuals. The publication of this long-awaited book is an opportunity to acknowledge the experts, specialists, and skilled craftspeople who constructed and completed Hong Kong’s Art Deco buildings.
——Alec Inglis
Chartered Engineer, grandson of sculptor William Wheatley Wagstaff
















